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  • Secrets revealed!

    It’s not every day you get to see a cross section and floor plan of one of Yale’s secret societies. But both are on display for the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 23 2024 06:52am

  • Brutally honest

    On display through December 10 at Paul Rudolph Hall: SOS Brutalism, a German exhibition inspired by the project of the same name that advocates... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 7 2022 10:21am

  • Incredible hulks

    Where better than at Yale’s own “concrete monster” to mount an exhibition about the preservation of brutalist architecture? SOS... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2022 08:00am

  • Sky scraper

    Sculptor Robert Engman ’55MFA, who was teaching at Yale during the construction of the Art & Architecture Building (now Paul Rudolph Hall)... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2019 02:24pm

  • Robert Venturi, 1925–2018

    Robert Venturi died yesterday at the age of 93. The influential architect began to make a name for himself while teaching at Yale in the early 1960s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 20 2018 10:20am

  • I just adore a penthouse view

    The penthouse of Paul Rudolph Hall, née the Art & Architecture Building, has been a guest suite for visiting professors and a café... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2018 09:24am

  • Vincent Scully, 1920–2017

    Vincent Scully ’40, ’49PhD, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, died at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, last night. He was 97... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 1 2017 10:26am

  • Godzilla’s-eye view

    Now on view at the School of Architecture: Vertical Cities, a Dutch exhibition with dozens of models of world skyscrapers, all at the same... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 30 2017 11:15am

  • The man who made Yale look like Yale

    James Gamble Rogers (1867–1947) the architect who designed eight Yale residential colleges, Sterling Memorial Library, the Law School, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2017 08:37am

  • What a relief

    When art dealer and Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria ’62 gave Yale an undisclosed amount to build the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 14 2016 08:48am

  • Dusky brutalism

    To those of you with an abiding enmity for Paul Rudolph Hall (née the Art and Architecture Building): isn't it kind of nice when bathed in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2016 10:16am

  • Architecture celebrates a hundred

    Yale first established its Department of Architecture (now the School of Architecture) in 1916, which means it’s about time for a centennial.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 3 2015 02:46pm

  • How to get into the Graduate School

    Iron master Samuel Yellin did beautiful work all over Yale’s campus, but we’ve always been partial to his entrance gates at the Hall of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 15 2015 09:14am

  • Throwback Thursday: Egyptian Greeks

    After he read our cover story about the building of the Skull and Bones tomb, Carl Wohlenberg ’50 wrote in to remind us of a largely forgotten... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2015 06:50am

  • What’s up?

    We’ve always wondered about that tower . . . No, not Harkness Tower; we know plenty about that one. We’re talking about that tiny... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 9 2015 08:33am

  • Free installation

    For a first-year architecture class called Visualization, a team including Rob Cornelissen ’17MArch (left) and Caroline Acheatel ’17MArch... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2015 08:10am

  • Trial by jury

    E-mailing a final paper to your professor is one thing. Standing up and defending your semester’s work to a panel of prominent architects is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 30 2015 08:40am

  • Master builder

    Happy Birthday to James Gamble Rogers, Class of 1889, who was born in Kentucky on this day in 1867. Rogers was the architect of eight Yale residential... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2015 09:09am